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conceive
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conceive as in:  conceive the idea

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    She couldn’t conceive why he acted that way.
    conceive = understand
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    We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence.  (source)
    conceive = even begin to understand
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    He could not conceive of a relentless goddess with her spear aimed at his heart.  (source)
    conceive = imagine
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    Only one of you had the brains to realize that in null gravity directions are whatever you conceive them to be.  (source)
    conceive = imagine
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    "Unthinkable! Inconceivable! Absurd! He could never be made into marshmallows!"  (source)
    Inconceivable = so totally unlikely it is hard to imagine it could be so
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivable means not and reverses the meaning of conceivable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    After many years I had meticulously regurgitated the ten degrees of holy blessed sap, and mixed it in every conceivable formulation.  (source)
    conceivable = imaginable
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    I was then given a battery of increasingly difficult aptitude tests intended to measure my knowledge and abilities in every area that might conceivably be of use to my new employer.  (source)
    conceivably = possibly
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
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    I brushed my hair ninety-nine times a night to bring luck to our marital bed, in hopes of conceiving a son.†  (source)
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    She did not understand, any more than a woman understands when she conceives a child in her womb.†  (source)
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    Though Edward clearly—if inconceivably—preferred me, I wouldn't be able to help making comparisons.  (source)
    inconceivably = in a manner that is not able to be understood or imagined
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivably means not and reverses the meaning of conceivably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room.  (source)
    conceived = originated the idea of
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    "You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The utterly inconceivable lost its massive inconceivableness.†  (source)
    inconceivableness = the quality of being totally unlikely
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivableness means not and reverses the meaning of conceivableness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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conceive as in:  conceived their first child

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    I conceived via artificial insemination.
    conceived = became pregnant
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    I wished then that we had conceived a child together, to be some comfort to him.  (source)
    conceived = created by pregnancy
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    For the two of you, the choice was made when Ender was conceived.  (source)
    conceived = created (as an embryo)
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    'The child was conceived out of wedlock,' he said, 'but the child's father was supposed to have been killed in the war.'  (source)
    conceived = made through pregnancy
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    How could we know that a human was able conceive a child with one of us—  (source)
    conceive = create through pregnancy
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    I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are conceived the night of Big D's party.†  (source)
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    Of course Rosalie could not conceive a child, because she was frozen in the state in which she passed from human to inhuman.  (source)
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    Personally, I think that was the moment he conceived the next body of work for his sketchbook.†  (source)
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    What Everett Ruess was after was beauty, and he conceived beauty in pretty romantic terms.†  (source)
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    Almost as soon as we married, Luke had been conceived—an accident.†  (source)
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    A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction.†  (source)
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    Whatever vague plan I had conceived regarding returning to my pond is wiped from my mind as I zigzag and dive and leap to avoid the fireballs.†  (source)
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    That Hassan would grow up illiterate like Ali and most Hazaras had been decided the minute he had been born, perhaps even the moment he had been conceived in Sanaubar's unwelcoming womb—after all, what use did a servant have for the written word?†  (source)
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